A new year is a little bit like a new start. We get to look forward as well as look back. What did we accomplice? What would we like to do going forward? There are many opinions on whether resolutions are a good or a bad thing, whether they are encouraging or just the opposite. […]
About Proportions and Haircuts
Yesterday evening my soon to be teenager (!) had a bit of a melt-down. She had gotten a haircut the day before and suddenly had a pang of regret. “It is too short, I can’t make any hair-do now, I look so ugly, etc”. First, I tried to calm her, tell her that it is […]
I am only Human
It is a stressful time, end-of-school-year and all. Still, that does not excuse the hysteric fit I had yesterday, that by the way, would have made most three-year-old’s very proud of me. This time of year, brings with it a million functions; the end-of-year parties at school, child-parent activity at swim club, choir- and piano […]
Don’t Cry Over Spilt Milk
By profession I am a bookkeeper. Those you know mefrom childhood, know that this was not my original plan whereas those who I have gotten to know in recent years and see me as a creative person, don’t understand the connection to the numbers. I think that I am equal parts rational as well as […]
The Eternal Weight Battle
Most of us have something (and hopefully not everything) we would like to change in our lives. Something we want to do better, do more of, or less. The want for change can come to us slowly over time, or appear suddenly. Once we decide that we want something to change, we want it […]
5 Things That Make No Sense
So many things in our behavior makes no sense if we really think about. Here are some that came to mind today (and that may or may not come from personal experience ?): When we complain about others that they don’t do what they are supposed to do, and yet when they finally do, we […]
The Choices we Make (and don’t Make)
Today marks 17 years since I boarded a plane to Tel Aviv, one-way ticket in hand paid by the Israeli Absorption Ministry and 100 kg of my most precious belongings packed in cardboard boxes. I was 21 years of age, young, naïve and very much in love. To leave everything behind was a conscious decision, […]
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